Re: toned down version of Mission Space coming this summer

NickM <nickmonitto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: I've heard this sort of thing a few times from different people, Tom,
: and it always perplexes me. I don't mean this to be an attack, but a
: very serious wonderment. I assume your "ridden everything else
: except..." means that you've done all the [foo] Mountains, as well as
: the 3 you specifically mention [RnRC/ExE/ToT]. And while you have no
: issues during them, the teacups can mess you up.

All Motion suseptability is not equal.

Different people are sensitive to different motions. Some people find the
"drop" motion of steep drop coasters (or ToT) to be troublesome while
spinning motions are ignorable or even enjoyable. Or there are those (like
me) that find the total opposite true. I can't even look at the teacups
without getting very dizzy and quickly this turns to nausea. On the other
hand I can enjoy ToT with only slightly wobbly knees. Coasters where the
visuals equal the sensations give me no trouble. The simulator rides that
had a rumored slight mismatch between the visuals and motions can cause
trouble for those who can focus their attention so totally on the screen
that the mismatch causes trouble. The first few times I rode Body Wars I
felt ill, but I quickly learned that if I simply looked down at the floor
occasionally or even kept the head and sholders of the person infront of
me in my field of view I never had a problem again.

So I figure I personally have two suseptabilities. One is to spinning
motions. And the other is to mismatches between visual and sensations. I
guess I tend to focus very tightly on what I am viewing and so I get a
kind of tunnel vision. One other problem is that it has been shown that
the inner ear picks up the initial spin starting and then if the spin
continues smoothly the inner ear fluid catches up to the spin and the
sensation is the same as standing still. Of course when the spin stops,
the ear is telling you that a rapid spin has begun in the opposite
direction. So since I normally don't have a spin problem immediately,
maybe if I looked outside the vehicle at the beginning and when the ear is
registering no motion then refocus to the inside of the car, I might
survive until the ride ended. Of course someone will have to carry me off
the ride since I will then be "spinning" standing still. :)

So when I am spinning and either my visual view is stable (the inside of
the spinning vehicle) or a blur (like looking out) I get a mismatch. The
mismatch of visual and sensation also explains the fact that I can't watch
the teacups from the outside. Visual is in rapid spinning motion while I
am standing still.

On the other side of the coin I know many people who are much more
suseptable to drops. I have a family member that rarely leaves Illinois
because driving most anywhere else involves long straight roads with
gentle hill after gentle hill. But this same person loves going to the
county fair and rides all the spinning rides over and over. (shrug)

Randy

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Randy Berbaum
Champaign, IL

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